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Cabinet - Sources

Inscription of 'Cyrus' at Pasargadae
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Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
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Cornelis Bega, The Alchemist (1663)
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Charter of Queen Philippa (1347)
Perspective Applied: Masaccio, Trinità (c.1426-1428)
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Плакат «Приучайте детей к труду» (Кыргызстан)
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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T20: Silver siglos, “King with bow and spear” Carradice Type 3.
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Florey Building
‘Latin Maiden of Tešanj’
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The terrestrial sphere: the four terrestrial elements
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Paper in Chinese folk culture
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Arrowheads from Deve Hüyük
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Armillary Sphere
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Samuel Puchas, Purchas his pilgrimes, vol. 3 (London, 1625)
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Justus Lipsius (1547-1606)
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Quentin Metsys, Erasmus Medal (1519)
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Transcription: "'Our Weddin': A True Saskatchewan Story of Feb, 1916."
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Drawing of a Saami teacher
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Anatomical videos
Runic Almanac
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Ottoman Turkish map: fragment of the world map of Piri Reis, 1513
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Willem Piso and Georg Marggraf's 'Historia naturalis Brasiliae' (1648)
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Astronomical Clock of Su Song (1020-1101)
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